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Mail From: "rflynn" <(email redacted)>


2 questions for yins (which apparently is Pittsburgese for y'all):

- Is there a preferred routing for fuel lines? As I found out this
weekend, mine comes up the starboard side via copper tubing, up
the front of the block, in front of the waterpump where it rather
dubiously rests against the inlet hose of the waterpump, and up
over the intake manifold. Should I be concerned about it resting
against the water hose? The last time I took the car out, I
could swear I vapor locked when the engine hit 240+F and I didn't
lose any coolant, which makes me suspicous about this contact point.

- On the panel to which the radiator bolts, I have 4 nuts brazed
on to the forward face (i.e. the opposite side of the radiator),
roughly just inside of where the radiator bolt holes are on the
opposite/inside face (they seem to be 1/4"-20s). Are these

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Mail From: Steve Laifman <(email redacted)>

rflynn wrote:

> Should I be concerned about it resting
> against the water hose? The last time I took the car out, I
> could swear I vapor locked when the engine hit 240+F and I didn't
> lose any coolant, which makes me suspicous about this contact point.

Not stock routing. In any event, the fuel line should be away from any exhaust
manifolds/pipes, any hot surfaces, and that would include the hoses.

> - On the panel to which the radiator bolts, I have 4 nuts brazed
> on to the forward face (i.e. the opposite side of the radiator),
> roughly just inside of where the radiator bolt holes are on the
> opposite/inside face (they seem to be 1/4"-20s). Are these.....

As your message was cropped here, I can only assume you were going to ask "Why two
sets of holes?" The answer is the inner set are for Alpine radiators, and the
outer set are for the Tiger. Check that thread again. It's probably 1/4-28, as
the British don't believe in course threads except for a few farm implements.
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Steve




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Mail From: Theo Smit <(email redacted)>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Laifman [SMTPemail redacted)]
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 9:16 AM
> To: rflynn
> Cc: (email redacted)
> Subject: Re: 2 Qs: fuel line and mystery nuts
>
> rflynn wrote:
>
> > Should I be concerned about it resting
> > against the water hose? The last time I took the car out, I
> > could swear I vapor locked when the engine hit 240+F and I didn't
> > lose any coolant, which makes me suspicous about this contact point.
>
> Not stock routing. In any event, the fuel line should be away from any
> exhaust
> manifolds/pipes, any hot surfaces, and that would include the hoses.
>
> > - On the panel to which the radiator bolts, I have 4 nuts brazed
> > on to the forward face (i.e. the opposite side of the radiator),
> > roughly just inside of where the radiator bolt holes are on the
> > opposite/inside face (they seem to be 1/4"-20s). Are these.....
>
> As your message was cropped here, I can only assume you were going to ask "Why
> two
> sets of holes?" The answer is the inner set are for Alpine radiators, and the
> outer set are for the Tiger. Check that thread again. It's probably 1/4-28,
> as
> the British don't believe in course threads except for a few farm implements.
>
[] According to the previous owner of my Tiger, the left side Tiger rad
holes are 5/16-24, the right side upper is 5/16-18, and the right side lower is
8mm x 1.25.

Theo


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